Books like Another Roadside Attraction
A countercultural couple runs a hot dog stand and a flea circus, until the mummified body of Christ shows up in their basement.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A woman with abnormally large thumbs hitchhikes from Virginia to the Dakotas on a quest involving cowgirls, whooping cranes, and the meaning of freedom.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
A CIA agent cursed by an Amazonian shaman to die if his feet touch the ground travels from Peru to a Vatican archive in search of a suppressed prophecy.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Under the Glacier
A young emissary from the bishop is sent to a remote parish beneath Snæfellsjökull, where the pastor no longer holds services and strange guests gather for something no one will explain.
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
Tom Jones
A foundling in eighteenth-century England careers through adventures, amorous encounters, and moral tests on his way to discovering his true parentage and winning the woman he loves.
The Baron in the Trees
At twelve, Cosimo, son of a baron, climbs a tree after a quarrel over a plate of snails and vows never to come down, and he keeps his word, living his whole life in the canopy as the Enlightenment unfolds below.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
Stranger in a Strange Land
A human raised by Martians returns to Earth as a messianic figure whose alien perspective reshapes religion, politics, and love.
Bowlaway
At the turn of the twentieth century, a woman named Bertha Truitt is found unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery with a bowling ball and fifteen pounds of gold, and goes on to found a candlepin alley that outlasts her.